Torah Thoughts and Reflections on the Jewish World

David Brooks on Jeremy Lin

This is an interesting piece by David Brooks regarding the tension between a religious orientation and the ethos of the modern professional athlete. He quotes Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik towards the end of the article – and seems to view the tension of a religious professional athlete as the tension between the “Rav’s” two motifs of “Adam” in the famous “Lonely Man of Faith”